SW-1500 PS-2 Capacitor Replacement

If you search blown or burst capacitor on PS2 boards, there's lots of indepth information buried on here. You can search here or Google and look for links back here.

If it is a PS-2 5V board most likely it is dead or potentially going to die.  Being rk, better like the road name because replacement of board would be costly even if you do it.  Speaker, board, bracket.  G

If it's the large 330uf 35V cap, I've replaced a few of those.  George is correct that it's a fragile board, but I have a few PS/2 5V equipped engines that are still running fine.  It's cheap to replace the cap, might as well give it a shot.

For that cap, I pry the board apart as far as possible without breaking anything, then reach in with a slim tip soldering iron to desolder the cap.  Heat the far side and rock the cap toward the edge, then heat the near side and rock it back.  A couple of times and the cap will be out.  Clean out the holes and solder the new cap in.

Thanks for the responses so far...plenty to think about.

I assume that the seller is referring to the large 300uf capacitor, but I'm not sure, and he doesn't know for sure either (he is a reseller and was merely sharing the contents of a written note enclosed in the box with the engine).

In the spirit of continuing education, the locomotive in question here is an SW1500, not an SW-1500. Regardless of what may be printed on the box, there are no dashes in EMD model numbers.

Here endeth the lesson…. 😉